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What Must Change in the Party

“The defeat of the Union of the Left has seriously confused the popular masses and filled many Communists with profound disquiet. A ‘workerist’—or more precisely sectarian—faction is openly rejoicing at the break with the Socialist Party, presenting it as a victory over the social-democratic danger. But the majority . . .” read more

On the Twenty-Second Congress of the French Communist Party

“I should like to thank the Sorbonne Philosophy Circle of the Union of Communist Students for inviting me to participate in this discussion. I was left free to choose my own subject. I felt that in France today, not only for Communists but also for all who want . . .” read more

Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon

“Can you tell us a little about your personal history? What brought you to Marxist philosophy?” read more

Freud and Lacan

“Let us admit, without prevarication: anyone today who merely wants to understand Freud’s revolutionary discovery, who wants to know what it means as well as just recognizing its existence, has to make a great theoretical and critical effort in order to cross the vast space of ideological prejudice . . .” read more

Contradiction and Overdetermination

“In an article devoted to the Young Marx, I have already stressed the ambiguity of the idea of ‘inverting Hegel’. It seemed to me that strictly speaking this expression suited Feuerbach perfectly; the latter did, indeed, ‘turn speculative philosophy back onto its feet’, but the only result was . . .” read more